“If we really want to make progress and achieve greater fairness as a society, it is time for elemental change. And we should start by looking at the Constitution, with the goal of holding a new Constitutional Convention.” IfsWantShouldGoalGreaterProgressAchieveConstitutionConventionsFairnessElementalsConstitutional Convention Author:Larry Sabato
“The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.” MenGreaterConstitutionSeriesRoundsVicesComplainingFollyDeceitUnhappinessFraudInherentPettyDegradeKnaves Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The Constitution gives us a standard to follow. We cannot define impeachable offenses to a greater degree than the language of the Constitution. But we all agree the issue is the public trust. Our duty is not to punish anyone. And our challenge is to avoid pettiness.” GivingLanguageChallengesIssuesGreaterDutyDegreesStandardsConstitutionAgreeOffensePettinessPublic Trust Author:Asa Hutchinson
“In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the lonely, or comfort the infirmed. No where in the Constitution does it say you have to provide clothing to the poor. In fact, one of the nicest things about living here in America, is that you really don't have to do anything for anybody. But when you do, you give meaning and provide soul to the concept of community...and develop a sense of purpose to something greater than one's self.” GivingDoeSoulSelfFactsAmericaPurposeCommunityPoorGreaterComfortOffersConceptsLonelyConstitutionHungryClothingsShelterHomelessOrdinances Author:Pope Paul VI
“Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being, in the greater part of its tendency, exactly a poetry-making faculty.” MindSawsGreaterConstitutionTendenciesPoetry IsFacultyIndigenous Book:Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.) Source: Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture. (2. Print.)
“The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.” GivingLittlesImportantStatesWholeGovernmentGreaterCitizensGiving UpConstitutionEaseFabric Book:The Essential Aristotle Source: The Essential Aristotle
“The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.” NeedsPoliticalOrderOpportunityIndividualForceCommunityJusticeGreaterRightsViolenceSpeechImportanceConstitutionInstitutionsPressesPreservesDiscussionFree SpeechImperativesAssemblyIndividual RightsFree PressConstitutional RightsIncitementSafeguarding Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government In the first place, there is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution, or which gives them any greater latitude in this respect than may be claimed by the courts of every State.” PeopleGivingFirstsMayStatesGovernmentLawSpiritGreaterPlansProtectAuthorityConstitutionCourtEmpoweringConsiderationFederal GovernmentViolationSyllablesLatitude Author:Alexander Hamilton
“Men and women who live in America...have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document.” PeopleMenChristianAmericaResponsibilityPrinciplesGreaterLandDutyMen And WomenConstitutionObligationPreservesImmortalDocuments Author:David O. McKay